Christian Writer Author:
Ruth Willms
Location:
Alberta
,
Canada
Email:
ruthwillms@gmail.com
Website:
www.ruthwillms.com
 Ruth Willms has always loved to read and make up stories.
As a child and teenager, Ruth entertained her sisters with stories at nighttime, when they were supposed to be sleeping. Her favorite story to tell was of her being adopted and then finding out that she was really a princess.
Ruth was born and grew up in the small municipality of Aldergrove, in beautiful British Columbia's Fraser Valley . She inherited her love for reading and storytelling from her father, an enthusiastic story teller who wrote for periodicals and magazines.
"Growing up in a large family of fourteen siblings - eight girls and six boys - gave me lots to write about. There was always something exciting going on!"
While enrolled with The Institute of Children's Literature in Redding Ridge, Connecticut, U.S.A., Ruth was influenced by and studied under several authors, including Arnold Madison, Lee Wyndham, Alvin Tresselt and Ron Roy.
For a few years she wrote short stories for children's magazines. Then her dreams of being an author were put on hold while she helped her husband Ed run a construction company.
Her love for children eventually led her to return to college where she enrolled in Early Childhood Education and began teaching Preschool. While teaching Preschool and later operating a dayhome, she revived her role of a story teller.
"My book, The Lion Tree, began as a bedtime story I told my grandchildren - the real Darian and Cassidy."
As her grandchildren, Darian and Cassidy, began elementary school, Ruth was challenged to create more intriguing, on-going stories. The bedtime stories began to revolve around her imaginary Lion Tree. Eventually, these stories became the basis of her book, The Lion Tree. The Lion Tree, released in 2007, is a Christian children's fantasy story.
Ruth posts her unpublished stories for children on her website www.ruthwillms.com and writes devotionals for children, Tuesdays and Fridays, on her blog http://ruthwillms.com/devotionals/.
Ruth lives in Calgary, Alberta with her husband Ed.
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